Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen – Khalifatul Masih I – The Way of the Righteous — Page 53
CHAPTER SIX Royal Physician of the State of Jammu The reputation and the scholarship of Hakeem Sahib, and the fame and experience of his medical knowledge, had evoked widespread praise and commendations. Hakeem Sahib had seen his master, the Holy Prophet sa , in the dream and, therefore, it was no wonder that he felt a strong urge to go to Kashmir. It was during this time that Lala Mathra Das (who was once his neighbour), now in the Police Service of the State of Jammu, was deputed by the Rajah to go to Hakeem Sahib and make an offer to become the Royal Physician at a salary of two hundred rupees. Hakeem Sahib and his understudy, Khalifa Noor-ud-Deen Jammuni and Lala Mathra Das left Bhera by a horse-drawn carriage via Wazirabad and Sialkot. The Maharajah was of the opinion that a man of the status of Hakeem Sahib was good even at a salary of two thousand rupees. His salary was first increased to four hundred, and later, to five hundred. Hakeem Sahib rented a state owned house near the Royal Palace. The superintendent of this place was an aged and greedy man, known to be very bad in faith and promises. People had advised Hakeem Sahib to have the rent deed signed on a court paper. True to his colours, this man came on the third day, and said, there was another party interested who would pay twice the rent. Hakeem Sahib reminded him of the deed on the court paper to which he said those deeds had no value. Hakeem Sahib agreed to pay twice the rent, then the same man came again that the other party was offering four times. Hakeem Sahib again agreed to that amount. He then returned again and said that the other party was prepared to offer twelve times more. Hakeem Sahib became very angry and disgusted with his attitude, especially in this old age. Hakeem Sahib developed a hatred for the city where people did not